john ramos talked to independent truckers and business owners who say the impact could be disastrous. reporter: ab 5 was intended to give transport workers more protections. but for truckers who own and operate their own rigs, it may be the end of the road, and that s going to affect all of us. on thursday, the u.s. supreme court made news again, this time by refusing to hear a challenge by california truckers to the new law that requires truck drivers to be employees of the trucking companies they do business with. this ruling really took everybody offguard, especially the way they at the speed that they kicked this back. essentially made it law. reporter: the problem is nearly all of the state s goods are transported by truck, many of which are owned and operated by individual drivers. that s especially the case at the port of oakland. there is 9,000 trucks that serve the ported on a daily basis, and 90% of them are independent contractors. so this is a big, big i
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Three days after an Amtrak train ran into a Honda sedan at an unmarked railway crossing in Brentwood, a nine-year-old boy has succumbed to his injuries and became the fourth person to die from the crash.